As I had been saying, week seven was a big week for the league with six titles launching, bringing the total number of players with at least one title on the board up to eight.
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But did we get any good releases? Well, that is what we’ll find out. But first, the score board as we left it last week.
Week 6 Scores
We had just five players with scores at the end of week six, so three more arrived in week seven.
First out of the game was Mewgenics.
Mewgenics
The game had early review scores the week before and was looking pretty strong.
- Mewgenics
- [Picked by TAGN HQ (Wilhelm)]
- Now has a score of 90.1
I will absolutely take any game that lands at 90. It didn’t hold there, but by the time it landed as the first launch of the week, it was still around 89, which put me on the scoreboard.
- Publisher Score Updates
- TAGN HQ (Wilhelm)
- Score has gone UP from 0 to 19.3
- Moved from 6th place to 2nd place
- Corr’s Creative Collective (Corr)
- Moved from 2nd place to 3rd place
- Neutical Publishing (Cyanbane)
- Moved from 3rd place to 4th place
- Green River Gaming (Nimgimli)
- Moved from 4th place to 5th place
- Anthania Interactive (Ula)
- Moved from 5th place to 6th place
- TAGN HQ (Wilhelm)
That was enough to get me into second place, though I wasn’t expecting to stay there for long with just one title scoring.
Then, on Tuesday, we got three more initial scores for the week’s titles.
- Yakuza Kiwami 3 & Dark Ties
- [Picked by Neutical Publishing (Cyanbane)]
- Now has a score of 75.3
- Romeo is a Dead Man
- [Picked by Neutical Publishing (Cyanbane)]
- Now has a score of 72.8
- Mario Tennis Fever
- [Picked by Rusty Shackleford (Shilgrod)]
- Now has a score of 75.4
Under 80 is starting to get into the regret zone. You still have a score and it isn’t dragging you down too much, but you need a lot of 85 to 90 titles to counter act more than one or two of those.
Romeo is a Dead Man was especially interesting in the reviews, because it wasn’t like everybody went “it’s fine” or anything.
Romeo is a Dead Man
Some people loved it, while others disdained it, so scores ran from 40 to 95, with a fair share of those in the middle.
Later in the day Yakuza Kiwami 3 & Dark Ties got a small bump in score.
- Yakuza Kiwami 3 & Dark Ties
- [Picked by Neutical Publishing (Cyanbane)]
- Score has gone UP from 74.9 to 76.5
Then it and Romeo released, the combined pair pushing Cyanbane up the scoreboard.
- Publisher Score Updates
- Neutical Publishing (Cyanbane)
- Score has gone UP from 14.7 to 24.2
- Moved from 4th place to 2nd place
- TAGN HQ (Wilhelm)
- Moved from 2nd place to 3rd place
- Corr’s Creative Collective (Corr)
- Moved from 3rd place to 4th place
- Neutical Publishing (Cyanbane)
Cyanbane had three titles launched, but was still in second place behind Shintar who was still sitting on two strong releases.
And then both of Cyanbane’s titles this week settled a bit.
- Romeo is a Dead Man
- [Picked by Neutical Publishing (Cyanbane)]
- Score has gone DOWN from 74.0 to 72.9
- Yakuza Kiwami 3 & Dark Ties
- [Picked by Neutical Publishing (Cyanbane)]
- Score has gone DOWN from 76.4 to 75.2
Meanwhile, Mario Tennis Fever, rose up a bit.
Mario Tennis Fever
The reviews seemed to be disappointed that the game was… well… mostly about playing tennis. Or maybe they object to blue socks on the court. I don’t know. What did they expect?
- Mario Tennis Fever
- [Picked by Rusty Shackleford (Shilgrod)]
- Score has gone UP from 74.8 to 75.8
Then there was REANIMAL, which picked up enough early reviews to get a score.
- REANIMAL
- [Picked by S Class Warfare Studios (p0tsh0t)]
- Now has a score of 80.4
A solid mid-pack score to open with.
Mario landed on Thursday morning and put Shilgrod on the scoreboard, but at the end of the lineup for now.
- Publisher Score Updates
- Rusty Shackleford (Shilgrod)
- Score has gone UP from 0 to 5.5
- Moved from 13th place to 7th place
- Rusty Shackleford (Shilgrod)
High on Life 2, which my brain keeps converting to Half Life 2, started getting score updates on Thursday morning.
High on Life 2
It seemed to bounce around a bit as the day went on, so I included [time stamps] to show how it progressed.
- High on Life 2
- [Picked by Green River Gaming (Nimgimli)]
- Now has a score of 76.7 [6:03]
- High on Life 2
- [Picked by Green River Gaming (Nimgimli)]
- Score has gone UP from 76.7 to 78.6 [8:03]
- High on Life 2
- [Picked by Green River Gaming (Nimgimli)]
- Score has gone DOWN from 78.6 to 77.5 [10:03]
- High on Life 2
- [Picked by Green River Gaming (Nimgimli)]
- Score has gone DOWN from 77.5 to 74.5 [12:03]
- High on Life 2
- [Picked by Green River Gaming (Nimgimli)]
- Score has gone UP from 75.3 to 76.5 [20:02]
Not a huge range of variation in those updates, but enough to make the bot, which only cares about moves that cause greater than a 1 point change, to ping us a few time.
But as it rolled over to Friday both REANIMAL and High on Life 2 released and the scoreboard updated once more.
- Publisher Score Updates
- Green River Gaming (Nimgimli)
- Score has gone UP from 12.8 to 19.3
- Moved from 5th place to 3rd place
- TAGN HQ (Wilhelm)
- Moved from 3rd place to 4th place
- Corr’s Creative Collective (Corr)
- Moved from 4th place to 5th place
- S Class Warfare Studios (p0tsh0t)
- Score has gone UP from 0 to 10.8
- Moved from 12th place to 7th place
- Rusty Shackleford (Shilgrod)
- Moved from 7th place to 8th place
- Green River Gaming (Nimgimli)
All of that ended up with the scoreboard looking like this come Saturday at 17:00 Pacific time.
Week 7 Scores
Shintar holds on to first place for another week with two titles released, holding off Cyanbane and Nimgimli who each have three titles on the board.
I am at the top of those with only one title out so far, but one title does not a season make.
Then we had more bid this week.
- Bids in TAGN League
- LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight
- Won by Corr’s Creative Collective (Corr) with a bid of $32
- Dropped game ‘Kiln’ conditionally
- S Class Warfare Studios (p0tsh0t)’s bid of $21 did not succeed: Publisher was outbid.
- Play Forever Mwahahaha (Shintar)’s bid of $20 did not succeed: Publisher was outbid.
- TAGN HQ (Wilhelm)’s bid of $7 did not succeed: Publisher was outbid.
- Won by Corr’s Creative Collective (Corr) with a bid of $32
- LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight
- Bloodstained: The Scarlet Engagement
- Won by Green River Gaming (Nimgimli) with a bid of $12
- Dropped game ‘Neverness to Everness’ conditionally
- Won by Green River Gaming (Nimgimli) with a bid of $12
- Horizon Hunters Gathering
- Won by Anthania Interactive (Ula) with a bid of $1
Corr won in the grab for LEGO Batman, which Cyanbane let go last week in exchange for MLB The Show 26, throwing down nearly half his remaining budget to get that game in his lineup. Several of us had our eye on it as well it seems.
The Nimgimli grabbed Bloodstained for $12, dropping Neverness to Everness in the transaction.
Finally, Ula swept in with my trademarked $1 bid to grab Horizon Hunters Gathering.
Then we had those betting against titles.
- Counter Picks in TAGN League
- Invincible VS
- Won by S Class Warfare Studios (p0tsh0t) with a bid of $6 (🎯 Counter Pick)
- Halo: Campaign Evolved
- Won by Pretty Blue Fox Games (Bhagpuss) with a bid of $10 (🎯 Counter Pick)
- Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War IV
- Won by Anthania Interactive (Ula) with a bid of $1 (🎯 Counter Pick)
- Invincible VS
I am actually feeling a little bit exposed on the Halo: Campaign Evolved front, it having dropped its November date for just a “2026” promise. That feels like no room at all to slip. However, I am currently holding on to it as a source says that “heads would roll” if it did not ship this year…. and we’re only half way through February. Plenty of time to drop.
Then we got some updates on release targets for a few titles.
- Mina the Hollower
- [Picked by Pretty Blue Fox Games (Bhagpuss)]
- Estimated release date changed from ‘2026’ to ‘Spring 2026’.
- Note removed: ‘Latest kickstarter update points towards a 2026 release date.’.
- Beast of Reincarnation
- [Picked by Anthania Interactive (Ula)]
- Release date changed from ‘Summer 2026’ to ‘Tuesday, August 04, 2026’.
- Ghost of Yōtei: Legends
- [Picked by Frabjous Day Enterprises (Archey)]
- Release date changed from ‘2026’ to ‘Tuesday, March 10, 2026’.
All of which leaves the next ten titles set to release looking like this.
Coming Up, but not for Week 8
Next week… we’ve got nothing. No releases are scheduled, and there is only one more release slated for February. A big one… but that isn’t much to have for two weeks.
So we’ll need some bids or score updates or dates being announced if I am going to have much for the week eight post. We might have to hold out until week ten for any big changes on the scoreboard.
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